Affiliated Consultant
Jim is a senior executive and banking back office operations specialist. He has over twenty years experience assisting financial institutions and third party companies serving the financial industry. He has extensive experience in check processing, payment processing, and clearing operations. Additionally, he provides project management expertise and advisory services skills.
Mr. Donnell has worked with numerous banks, credit unions, clearing houses, and private firms with large item processing clearing needs to reduce expense, improve float, eliminate redundancy, implement technology, and increase efficiency. Mr. Donnell has been a Senior Vice President at multiple financial institutions, and public and private firms. In addition, he has provided advisory services for KPMG, and worked with the Federal Reserve Bank on several confidential initiatives.
Key areas of personnel expertise and focus include: ability to lead and implement best practices and introduce new perspectives to meet end goals, ability to incorporate business improvements in multiple process while supporting growth initiatives, ability to implement and utilize management metrics and strategic pathways to provide analytical tools and measurement tracking, ability to relate to the institutional needs while dealing with the challenges of the clearing environment.
Mr. Donnell has worked with Savings banks, commercial banks, clearing houses, IT/BPO firms, and over 150 credit unions. He has presided over fifteen technology platform conversions, and implemented numerous Image solutions involving check and payment processing. He has also worked with clients and vendors on image distribution systems so clients can access their images. He has worked to reduce clearing times, and improve float at banks, credit unions, and in a service bureau environment.
Born in New York, Jim has worked for the likes of Goldman Sachs, The Dime Savings Bank of New York, Savings Bank Trust Company, Nationar, KPMG, Webster Bank, CBT Advisory Services, Management Applications, and The Classic Group. He has also performed work for Cape Cod Five, Deutsche Bank, Webster Bank, CBT Trust, The Right Computer Company, World Wide Solutions, State Street Bank, Prudential, Republic National, and over thirty five credit unions. He has managed staffs as large as two hundred and as small as five.
Mr.Donnell is a graduate of St Francis College. He has studied Contract Law at Hofstra University and attended a UCONN Mastery Program. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program and The Performance Management Program sponsored by the National Clearing House.